The most deeply spiritual men and women that I know are
people who have given much time to meditation. You cannot develop spiritual
wisdom without meditation. God told Joshua this fact at the very beginning of
his ministry after the death of Moses.
Joshua 1:8; “this book of the law shall not depart out of
thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate thereon day and night, that thou mayest
observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt
make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success”. Take time to
meditate the word. Shut yourself in alone with your own spirit where the
clamour of the world is shut out. If you are ambitious to do something worthwhile,
I will suggest that you take 10 or 15 minutes daily for meditation. Learn to do
it. In other words, begin the development of your own spirit. You have gone to
school, or you are going to school for the development of your intellect. Some
of you are taking physical cultures for the development of your muscles. If you
will take time you can develop your memory.
Memory is of the spirit. You may develop any gift that you
wish but the most important gifts that God has given to you are the spiritual
gifts. It is the development of your spirit that is going to mean more to your
life than any other thing. Let me show you some tremendous facts in connection
with the development of your spirit life. When Jesus went away he promised to
send the holy spirit. John 14:16-17 ; “ And I will pray the father, he shall
give you another comforter, that he may be with you forever, even the spirit of
truth whom the world cannot receive for he beholdeth him not, neither knoweth
him: ye know me, for he abideth in you, and shall be with you”. There is
coming, Jesus said, a spirit that is going to recreate your spirit. Then he is
going to take charge of your spirit and dominate you spiritually. You are going to yield your
spirit to the domination of the holy spirit through the word. The psychologist
told us that we have a subconscious mind, but it is the spirit, the real man.
The next problem is how your spirit can be developed. He
said that the holy spirit would come and guide us into all reality; not the
reality of the intellect but into the reality of spiritual things. That is the
reason I want you to get quiet a little while, I want you so quite that the
holy spirit may communicate with your spirit through the word and unveil this
things to you. It will make you a master. The great body of men do not meditate
in the spirit, they live in the realm of senses. There meditation are guided by
the senses. The sense governed mind is limited. Your spirit has practically no
limitations. You can develop your spirit life until you dominate circumstances.
Your spirit can come into vital union with his spirit, the father himself. Your
spirit becomes a partaker of the divine nature, it is not your intellect or
body, but your spirit that fellowship the riches of his gracious presence. Your
spirit,with God`s nature in it, can fellowship on terms of absolute equality
with God himself.
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